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Britain must be the champion of international law.
According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.
China itself has said repeatedly that they will and have been conforming to international law.
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
I don't need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army... operates according to the international law guidelines.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
Both Poland and Canada should be advocates of long-'lasting, peaceful solutions in eastern Ukraine, based on unconditional respect of international law.
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
Clearly, the response to terrorism and violent extremism must respect human rights and comply with international law. That is not just a question of justice but of effectiveness.
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
I think the United States, whether you have a Democratic president or whether you have a Republican president, is bound by international law, whether some senators like it or not.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC's calls for those laws to be respected are ignored.
What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place.
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.
Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.
In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.
This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.